Device for loading sugar-cane.



PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

G. D. LUGE.

DEVICE FOR LOADING SUGAR CANE.

N V E N TOR Geozyefl Zara W/TNESSES:

By 71% ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters IPatent.

Patented Jan. 16. 1 906.

Application filed August 22, 1905. Serial No. 275.221.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. LUoE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Device for Loading Sugar-Cane, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a loading attachment to carts and other vehicles for loading sugar-cane or like material thereon, which device includes a permanentlyattached standard adapted to receive removable cranes, which cranes are provided with grapples and with means for raising and lowering the grapples and operating their trips, together with means for swinging the cranes on their supports, the cranes being independent in their action.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device applied to a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which the crane is mounted on the standard, and Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of one of the cranes.

A represents the body of a cart or other vehicle, to the front board of which a standard 10 is permanently secured, of any desired type. This standard is provided with cross-arms 11, located a predetermined distance apart, and said cross-arms extend beyond the side edges of the standard, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and at the outer end of each cross-arm 11 a vertical knuckle 12 is formed.

B and B represent two cranes, one independent of the other, and said cranes are adapted to swing at opposite sides of the standard 10, being readily removable from their supports. the same construction, and each crane embodies a vertical member 13, having downwardly-extending pintles 14:, carried from horizontal projections 14*, located at the inner longitudinal edge of said vertical member 13, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and a carrying-arm 15, which is integral with the The cranes B and B are ofupper end of the vertical member 13, the said carrying-arm 15 being preferably given an upward inclination, so that it may be as high as possible from the ground at its free end, and the two members 13 and 15 of a crane are strengthened by a brace-bar .16, attached to the under face of the carrying-arm 15 and the outer longitudinal edge of the vertical or swing member 13.

When a crane is to be placed in position on a standard 10, its pintles 14 are made to enter the knuckles 12 of the cross-arms 11, attached to the said standard 10, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. At the outer or free end of the swing-arm 15 of each crane B and B an eye 17 is located, from which eye a block 18 is suspended, and the said block 18 is suitably connected by a rope or cable 19 with a second block 20, which block is pivotally attached to the head-bar of a grapple C of any approved construction, the tongs or fingers of which grapple are opened and closed by means of a trip-arm 21, suitably attached thereto.

Arope 22 is attach ed to the said trip-arm 21 of each grapple, and a second rope 23 is attached to the free end of the carrying-arm 15 of each crane, and these two ropes are carried to a removable connection with the standard 10 or with the lower portion of the swing member of the crane to which said ropes 22 and 23 belong.

In the operation of the device when a cart is to be loaded the cranes are placed in position on the standard, as has been specified, and the draft-animals are hitched to the ropes 19, forming a portion of the raising and lowering tackle for the grapples. The grapples will then drop by gravity, the carrying-arms of the cranes having been swung outward away from the body of the vehicle, and after a sufficient load has been received by the grapples they are elevated. practically to the position shown in Fig. 1. Then by means of the ropes 23 the operator will pull the carrying-arm of the loaded crane over the body of the cart, and finally by pulling on the rope 22 the trip-arm 21 of the loaded grapple is operated in a manner to cause the load to be dumped from the grapple and received into the body of the vehicle.

After the vehicle has received its load the cranes B and B are removed from the standard 10 of the loaded vehicle and transferred to the standard of another vehicle which is to be loaded.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A standard adapted for attachment to a vehicle, cranes removably mounted on said standard at opposite sides thereof and arranged to swing to and from each other, grapples, block-and-fall connections between the grapples and the cranes, independent shifting-cables for the cranes, and independent tripping-cables for the grapples.

2. A standard adapted for attachment to a vehicle-body, having cross-arms secured thereto, which arms terminate in knuckles at their outer ends, cranes adapted for removable and swinging connection with the standard, each crane comprising a vertical swing member and a carrying member at an angle to the swing member and having an upward and outward inclination, and pintles eX- tending down from a side of the swing member, adapted to enter the knuckles on the crossarms of the standard, a block connected with the outer end of the swingarm of each crane, a grapple located beneath each of said blocks and provided with a triparm, a block connected with each grapple, anv operatingrope conn ected with the blocks of the grapples and the blocks carried by the swing-arms of the cranes, a rope connected with the outer end of the swing-arm of each crane, and a second rope connected with the trip-arm of each grapple, all of said ropes being connected at their inner ends with the said standard. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

GEORGE n. LUcE.

Witnesses: THoMAs WEID, JNo. J. WARD. 

